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As I continue on my journey of watching the entire original series of Pokemon (the first five seasons), I came across this episode. When I was a kid, I can distinctly remember this episode as a very sad episode. But, the more I look at it, I only got choked up this time because of how happy the episode is.

Sure, the montage was nostalgic and saddening (and without it I possibly wouldn't have felt as happy at the end), but it surely was NOT the defining moment of the episode. The last two minutes were the defining moments. Ash and Pikachu reuniting, hugging each other... You can just tell how much they care for each other and how special their friendship is. Sure, it SOUNDS lame, but if you watched the series from the beginning to this episode, it is very dramatic and heart-warming.

This episode (as well as a few others) are the ones I define as the best, most memorable, and the most important episodes. If someone said that they thought Pokemon was boring and just an "advertisement" for the games, I would tell them to watch this episode and still keep that same opinion.

Best episode of pokemon ever I just watched it again and almost started crying.

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I never thought that this was a sad episode to be honest. It's probably because of the terrible song the dub decided to play but it was really just average for me. Watching it again all of these years later, I still don't see why anyone got sad over this episode but that's probably just me. I never bought into the fact that Pikachu was going away.

It's funny how there was a whole clan of Pikachu in that small section of forest but the Pokémon is so rare on the show that only a couple have actually had a Pikachu and Raichu.

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This was a really sweet episode. It was nice to see how Pikachu was accepted by the other Pikachu after they went through their near death experience! When I saw this when I was young, there was a point when I actually thought Ash may have actually left Pikachu there. I'm sort of glad he didn't!

I didn't really cry about it, because I knew Ash would never leave Pikachu there, the writers couldn't ditch their mascot. Still a sad episode, but even when I was a little kid, I knew it was going to be all right, unlike Butterfree...

To be honest, I have to disagree with saying this is a good episode. It had a good, emotional ending which of course give you the satisfied feeling of witnessing one of the best moments in the original series. The ending was fabulous, whereas the other parts of the episode were in my opinion, quite dull. I don't want to say this episode is uninteresting, but I have seen some better episodes than this.

This episode is sad but has a good ending. Ash left Butterfree not that much earlier and it made me afraid for a while Pikachu would be next to go. Seeing Ash run away and see all of those moments they spend together was something worth falling a tear for.

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